What is Assuming Gender?

Assuming Gender is an electronic journal dedicated to the timely analysis of constructions of gendered texts, practices, and subjectivities. This journal seeks to continue and shift debates on how gender is problematized in contemporary discourses as well as participate in the dialogue and tensions that maintain the urgency of such conversations.

We feature cutting-edge research from a diverse range of methodologies and approaches to gender studies, and include work in feminist theories, queer theories, critical and cultural theory, literature, film studies, sociology and other relevant fields. As an online, open-access, international, peer-reviewed academic journal, we accept articles and book reviews on a wide range of topics and welcome critical debate across all fields of inquiry.

To support and extend the conversations that take place within our journal, we also organise a lecture and seminar series in Cardiff University. Details of such events will be posted on this site, and we hope to see you at one of our events.

Assuming Gender is now generously funded by the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy, Cardiff University and has previously received funding from the Cardiff University Graduate School in Humanities and the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory. We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their generosity and support, without which this project simply would not have been possible.

We hope you will participate in the dialogues and debates as readers and contributors.